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Server hosting for Noobs

My First Digital Ocean Droplet As a start for codelab project, I decided to start my own cloud server or VPS to be exact. This page served as my journal to explore into server hosting. Create Droplet (VPS) I have chosen Digital Ocean VPS provider as my service provider . There are many tutorials out there providing guide on account registering and starting up droplet (Digital Ocean is referring VPS node as droplet). It is pretty simple to setup a droplet in Digital Ocean. Step 1 : Register  Register an account at  Digital Ocean  and then login into your DO account. Step 2 : Create droplets Create droplets. D.O offered have 3 options to create a droplet:  Linux distribution - plain linux distribution Container - For docker and container type application One-click app - Linux with pre-installed application tailored for specific use case such as web hosting, etc. Step 3 : Choose your Linux flavor For testing, plain linux VPS shall served the purpose. Cho